I put an enhancement request in asking for UK english a few weeks ago after some very confusing correspondence with my TSM. Don't think he really understood why I objected to US english in the first place...
Sophie Brettell
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist on behalf of Dr Malcolm Murray
Sent: Fri 8/19/2005 1:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Locales
Hi Neil,
As another non-English person, it gets to me too :-)
Locale editing comes in version 7.
I hope there will be a UK/Queen's English option, if not perhaps it is
something we should do as a community. Mind you given how many UK users
there are, we should really demand one.
I hope that we can then edit the UK locale to develop a Durham English.
This will allow us to use terms already familiar to our staff and
studenrs - e.g. replace terms such as "courses" with their Durham-speak
equivalent: "modules".
Fingers crossed,
Malcolm.
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Dr Malcolm Murray
Learning Technologies Team
IT Service
Durham University
Neil Penry wrote:
> Has anyone looked at Locales? Do you know if there is going to be one in English
> for users in the UK and other English speaking countries. Am I the only one who
> finds it patronising to have "English (United States)" as the only option - Not
> even just "English"?
>
> Perhaps it's just me..and I'm not even English..
>
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